Annual award ceremony 2011
The annual award ceremony of the prof.dr. Marijan Hanzekovic Foundation was held on Friday, 9th December 2011. In the regular category the 50,000 kn prize, the diploma and medals were won by Lei Hou and Jiarui Zhang (PhD candidates, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and Department of Economics, University of Munich and School of Economics) for the paper Multiple finances, margins of FDI and aggregate industry productivity. In the student category, the 15,000 kn prize and the diploma was won by Alen Džanić (student of economics, Central European University, Budapest) for the paper Concentration of ownership and corporate performance: evidence from the Zagreb Stock Exchange.
The members of the award committee for 2011 were Mario Holzner (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Vienna), Ivo Krznar (Croatian National Bank, Zagreb), Kristina Šorić (Faculty of Business and Economics, Zagreb); Goran Vukšić (Institute of Public Finance) and Katarina Ott (Institute of Public Finance).
The awarded papers will be published in the journal Financial Theory and Practice 1/12 as well as on the Internet pages of the Foundation and of the Institute of Public Finance.
This year's competition had the most applications since the start of the Foundation. Every year we receive more international applications.
About the Trust
The Trust was set up in memory of Professor Marijan Hanžeković. The founders of the Professor Dr Marijan Hanžeković Trust were the Institute of Public Finance, Marijan Hanžeković Jr, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia, the Croatian National Bank, Privredna banka, Zagrebacka banka and the Croatian Postal Bank. Apart from paying tribute to the memory of Professor Marijan Hanžeković, the objective of the Foundation is to promote the financial sciences and to encourage scholars and experts, especially the young, to be engaged with this discipline.
Prizes
- the regular prize, which consists of a diploma, a medal and the amount of 50,000 kuna (gross) and
- the student award, which consists of a diploma and the amount of 15.000 kuna (gross).
Contact
Prof. dr. Marijan Hanžeković Foundation
Smičiklasova 21
10000 Zagreb
Tel: + 385 1 4819 363
Fax: + 385 1 4819 365
E-mail:
zaklada.hanzekovic@ijf.hr
About prof. Hanžeković
Professor dr Marijan Hanžeković, lawyer and economist, as well as professor of literature and language, worked in almost all areas of the economy, especial in finances, the fiscal and monetary system, banking, securities and stock exchanges. He was born in 1915 in Slavonska Požega, and he died in 1993 in Zagreb. He went to the Real Gymnasium in Zagreb, graduating in 1933, and took a doctorate in the Law Faculty in 1938.
